A politician in Kazakhstan has claimed “blood tests for degeneratism” can identify gay people while calling for homosexuality to be criminalized, describing it as a threat to national security. Standing before a poster claiming “homosexuality is a threat to the nation,” Dauren Babamuratov, leader of the nationalist “Bolashak” movement, petitioned the government …

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — A lawmaker in Kazakhstan’s parliament says he will introduce a bill modeled after Russia’s anti-gay law that will shut down gay clubs, end pride parades, and prohibit all forms of “homosexual propaganda.”